Who was Laura-Leigh on Vanderpump Rules?
The Juilliard-trained actress made her first appearance on Vanderpump Rules during Season 1, Episode 4 as a waitress at SUR who was picking up the slack while Stassi and her friends were celebrating her birthday in Las Vegas.
Fellow waitress Scheana Shay introduced her as someone that she didn't know too well, adding "her voice is beyond annoying.""But she's a sweet girl," Scheana added.
What happened between Laura-Leigh and Jax Taylor?
Shortly after being introduced on the show, Jax and Laura-Leigh started hooking up — just weeks after Jax's break-up with Stassi, but after Stassi had started a relationship with SUR bartender, Frank Herlihy. SUR manager, Peter Madrigal, made Jax come clean about the new relationship in Episode 5.
"This wasn't supposed to happen, she was babysitting my dog," Jax confessed to Peter. "It just so happened that we got lunch, and then we went for a hike, and then we went to get dinner, and then we went to see a movie, and then we got breakfast, and then we got, you know — I just get along with her and I like her company and we like each other."
Jax initially insisted that his relationship with Laura-Leigh wasn't a rebound, and said it wasn't to get back at Stassi. (He did say that was "the best sex" he'd had in a long time.) Even Lisa was apprehensive, calling Laura-Leigh a "delicate and fragile girl" and warning Jax not to mess with her.
Still, Jax refused to call Laura-Leigh his girlfriend and insisted the two were not in "a relationship," even as they continued to see each other, attended parties together, went to the sauna, and even hooked up in the bathroom at SUR.
But in Episode 7, Jax told Laura-Leigh that their relationship was moving too fast, especially since he had just gotten out of a two year relationship. "When I date I rush things," Jax explained in a confessional. "I like, jump right into girlfriend-boyfriend mode, and I skip the whole dating part. We don't even get to know each other."
During a conversation with Stassi later that episode, Jax was adamant that him and Laura-Leigh were never boyfriend-girlfriend and that she was a "mere distraction" for him to get over Stassi — and that he would do whatever he could to win Stassi back, including ending things with Laura-Leigh... whom he proceeded to ghost.
Laura-Leigh told Jax was not going to go down without a fight, ultimately confronting him at work because he had stopped texting her and would not talk her anywhere else. "Here's the thing," he told her. "I just want to let this go.""That's emotionally abusive," she replied. "You are a coward."
Jax admitted as much during the Vanderpump Rules Season 1 Reunion, noting "I shouldn't have done what I did," Jax said. "She's a really nice girl and I wish the best for her."
What happened after Laura-Leigh and Jax Taylor broke up?
Laura-Leigh insisted that neither Jax or Stassi would bully her out of her job at SUR, telling him that he would have to deal with her every day until she booked an acting job and left SUR permanently.
"And then when I'm walking on the red carpet, and I've got my own TV show, you're gonna look at me and say 'I should have been nice to her,'" she told him.
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